Good article.......

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2380420/The-original-King-Kenny-The-story-Kenny-Davenport-birth-Football-League.html

Thanks, a good read that.

So we scored the first ever goal in league football! We really don't make enough of our history.

So we scored the first ever goal in league football! We really don't make enough of our history.

Do think ant club can match our illustrious history. And we definitely should make much more of it.

A bit more detail in this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23397062

 

"On the day Davenport scored the first league goal, the body of Annie Chapman was discovered in Whitechapel, London. She was the second victim of Jack the Ripper"

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"crowds could be quite rowdy and would often boo the opposition"

 

Fucking brilliant.

 

We're Bolton Wanderers, we'll boo if we want

So we scored the first ever goal in league football! We really don't make enough of our history.

But we only found this out recently when it was discovered that another game had kicked off later than ours. Great that we can add it to our already illustrious history though.

Article by Henry Winter: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/10207669/Bolton-and-England-inside-forward-Kenyon-Davenport-finally-credited-with-scoring-Football-Leagues-first-goal.html

 

"The world’s first league goal has been variously credited down the years to Jack Gordon, Preston North End's Scottish winger, to another member of the original Invincibles, Fred Dewhurst, and particularly an own goal from Aston Villa's full-back Gershom Cox. Not so. The history man can today be revealed as James Kenyon “Kenny” Davenport of Bolton Wanderers."

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http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10576942.print/

 

As the Football League was the world’s first league, the discovery means he was not only the first league goal scorer in English football history — but the first in the world.

 

Simon Marland, Wanderers’ club secretary and official historian, said the club would look at marking the event when it next played Derby County

This article also told me that Kenny was another Bolton born player who went on to play for both the Wanderers and England. Definitely feel that deserves a 'hall of fame' type tribute at the Reebok. So off the top of my head there would also be David Jack, Tommy Banks and Nat. Anyone else?

But we only found this out recently when it was discovered that another game had kicked off later than ours. Great that we can add it to our already illustrious history though.

 

That's true but we should be naming stands after people like Harry Goslin and Kenny Davenport.

 

Being the team to score the first ever goal in world football, as the bloke who did the research said, "You can’t get bigger than that really.”

That's true but we should be naming stands after people like Harry Goslin and Kenny Davenport.

 

Being the team to score the first ever goal in world football, as the bloke who did the research said, "You can’t get bigger than that really.”

I agree or if not stands then definitely something appropiate at our ground should be named after them

We still lost though, typical.

We still lost though, typical.

 

 

And was our heaviest home defeat until that day

 

 

Booo

gulped down a couple of pints in the nearby pub and strolled home to his wife Emma and two children

 

 

Some things never change

"crowds could be quite rowdy and would often boo the opposition"

 

Fucking brilliant.

 

We're Bolton Wanderers, we'll boo if we want

 

It's just a shame we prefer to boo our own players these days, yet applaud the opposition keeper, regardless of whether he plays for the likes of United/Liverpool or not. 

 

We should be booing the fuckers and intimidating them, not welcoming them to the north stand with open arms.

 

TIL NEXT TIME

 

CAPSLOCK COLIN

Edited July 29, 201313 yr by CAPSLOCKCOLIN

 

It's just a shame we prefer to boo our own players these days, yet applaud the opposition keeper, regardless of whether he plays for the likes of United/Liverpool or not.

 

We should be booing the fuckers and intimidating them, not welcoming them to the north stand with open arms.

 

TIL NEXT TIME

 

CAPSLOCK COLIN

Bring back the Manny Rd North.

 

Away teams used to hate us intimidating & baying at them as the sat on those crappy plastic seats pitch side.

 

Happy days

 

It's just a shame we prefer to boo our own players these days, yet applaud the opposition keeper, regardless of whether he plays for the likes of United/Liverpool or not. 

 

We should be booing the fuckers and intimidating them, not welcoming them to the north stand with open arms.

 

TIL NEXT TIME

 

CAPSLOCK COLIN

 

 

I've never heard us applaud an opposition's keeper

certainly happened with Joe Hart

 

at the time, thought that was a one-off as he seems a likeable chap unlikely to be caught roasting 17 year olds

It happens in the north lower every week. I'm usually busy finishing a pint until a minute into the second half instead of looking bewildered at our applause of opposition players thankfully.

 

TIL NEXT TIME

 

CAPSLOCK COLIN

"Davenport scored again a minute later, before defensive frailties were ruthlessly exposed..."

 

Bentley out!

Football League statement: http://fl125.co.uk/news/king-kenny-crowned-first-goalscorer

 

“There have been 515,412 goals scored in the 125 years of The Football League and millions more in leagues across the globe. However, there can only be one ‘first goal’ and after years of debate, it appears that we now have the answer.

 

“It is particularly fitting that it should be scored by a player who played for his hometown club for the best part of a decade rather than an own goal.”